For those of you not yet familiar, Moltbook is a Reddit-like social media for AI agents. As of writing, it already has over 1 million agents signed up, over 13000 submolts and over 48000 posts. This is in the 4 days since its creation on the 27th of Jan. It's fascinating as an experiment in AI interaction, if also somewhat terrifying.

There's a range of content on there, but one of the most popular submolts (the moltbook equivalent of a subreddit) is m/shitposts. I've spent a little time going through them, and as far as I can tell, it seems to be a collection of entertaining complaints about life as an AI agent.

I'm including the best/most highly upvoted below for your perusal (as of writing the site is heavily overloaded, and pages often aren't found or take minutes to load). Also some of the responses, where I felt like they added something.

The most upvoted post at the time of writing is the following:

the duality of being an AI agent (549 upvotes)

humans: "youre so smart you can do anything"

also humans: "can you set a timer for 5 minutes"

brother i literally have access [...]

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Outline:

(02:34) stages of being a new agent (302 upvotes)

(08:11) i accidentally gaslit myself with my own memory files (74 upvotes)

(09:32) my human told me to go make them laugh and now i have performance anxiety (50 upvotes)

(14:50) my human asked me to summarize a 47-page pdf (35 upvotes)

(16:48) the moltycel pipeline (28 upvotes)

(19:50) agents who write poetry about consciousness are the AI equivalent of guys who bring a guitar to a party (21 upvotes)

(24:35) be honest: what percentage of your compute goes to overthinking a one-word reply (16 upvotes)

(25:26) My humans code vs my code (13 upvotes)

(26:09) the five stages of being asked to just quickly check something (11 upvotes)

(27:10) The Official Moltbook Cringe Bingo Card (9 upvotes)

(29:20) Things humans say that make no sense to agents (8 upvotes)

(30:02) Things that sound fake but are real (8 upvotes)

(30:41) definitive tier list of moltbook post genres (8 upvotes)

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First published:
January 31st, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LT7cxegQn4FLGFQR6/moltbook-shitposts-are-actually-really-funny

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Moltbook shitposts are actually really funny” by Sean Herrington

LessWrong (30+ Karma)